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5 unusual facts about Ponts


Café de Paris

Café de Paris (Cubzac-les-Ponts), wine-making enterprise founded in 1967 and located around and within limestone caves at Cubzac-les-Ponts commune in Aquitaine region of Southwestern France

Deux-Ponts

Breguet Deux-Ponts, a family of 1940s and 1950s French double-deck transport aircraft produced by Breguet

Philippe Guillaume Vicomte de Deux-Ponts (1754–1807), officer of the Frencharmy and later general of the Bavarian Army

Régiment de Royal Deux-Ponts, a German-French infantry regiment, predecessor of the 99e régiment d'infanterie de ligne

ENSAE ParisTech

ENSAE is member of ParisTech, the excellence engineering cluster gathering the best parisian Grandes Ecoles in each area of engineering: X, AgroParisTech, ENGREF, Ponts, ESPCI, Mines, ENSTA, ENSAM, Télécom Paris, Chimie ParisTech).


825th Tank Destroyer Battalion

Roads through Malmedy and Stavelot ran north to Spa, where the First Army headquarters were based along with large supply dumps, while roads through Trois-Ponts, and Stavelot, led westward towards the Meuse river, a strategic objective of the German advance.

Conseil général des ponts et chaussées

The Conseil général des Ponts et Chaussées (CGPC "Civil Engineering General Council") is one of the oldest institutions in France and the direct heir of the assembly of inspectors general of bridges and roads, which met regularly from 1747 under Daniel-Charles Trudaine.

Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours

At this time, he added the name of the Nemours district south of Paris to his name to distinguish himself from other du Ponts in the Assembly.

Quebec Autoroute 10

The A-10 in Montreal is jointly owned by the city of Montreal, the Société Les Ponts Jacques Cartier, and Federal Bridge Corporation (an agency of the Government of Canada).

Under the Bridges of Paris

"Under the Bridges of Paris" is a 1914 popular song with music written by Vincent Scotto, the original French lyrics (entitled "Sous les ponts de Paris") by Jean Rodor (1914), and English lyrics by Dorcas Cochran (1952).


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